How Fact-Free Parenting Policies Rob Kids' Independence
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How Fact-Free Parenting Policies Rob Kids' Independence
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#2>Attorney General, and determined that children under 10 years old could not be unsupervised in or outside the home
Good night... glad I live in America.
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#3Any countries out there where this kind of helicopter parenting isn't endemic in the culture?
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#4Any countries out there where this kind of helicopter parenting isn't endemic in the culture?
Helicopter parenting is one problem, legal enforcement of helicopter parenting is an entirely different monster.
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#5While helicopter parenting is a thing here in Germany, too, it is still possible to use your sane judgement as a parent for a lot of things. My daughter is not yet in school (so I am not into a peer group that talks about such stuff), but I see the 7-year-old neighbour kids walking to school without supervision, just as it has been the custom here in my own childhood. I have to admit there are fewer of those on the street (and more accompanied by parents), but kids still have the same freedoms in law that I had. Heck, in anti-gun Germany they are allowed to shoot at shooting clubs beginning 12, doing their first solo flight in (sail)planes at 14 and have their boat driving license at 16. I often critisize our country for its obese body of law, but life of kids is not too much restricted.
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#6Over-protecting kids is probably not the main point here. Bureaucrats tend to focus on only one goal: not taking any responsibility or risks. Letting kids being independent is a risk for them, even if this is for their own good. And you can carefully explain to them the case, with scientific evidences, but they are not accountable for anything, and won't bother to change their mind. Because there is a second thing bureaucrats hate: admitting they were wrong.
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#7The point of parenting isn't to avoid getting criticized for being a "bad parent", or to do things that make you look like a "good parent". The point is to provide the necessary conditions for children to learn how to be independent and successful adults. This involves taking reasonable levels of risks, and figuring out what amount of risk-taking is reasonable, and learning how to navigate the world in general.
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#8Any countries out there where this kind of helicopter parenting isn't endemic in the culture?
Helicopter parenting is one problem, legal enforcement of helicopter parenting is an entirely different monster.
Don't parents sometimes tattle on other parents they deem to be irresponsible, according to their own standards of just what children ought to be able to do by themselves? I seem to remember reading some anecdotes here the last time this topic came up.
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#9The "Cover Your Ass" culture which results in mandating helicopter parenting is sadly widespread, and not just in Canada.
We need to be ever vigilant to stop petty bureaucrats everywhere from making arbitrary rules and taking away valuable freedoms and discretion. Do what you can at work and in your personal life to maintain freedoms.
EDIT: One simple thing we can do is make a donation to the legal fighting fund established by the writer of this article to fight this draconian Canadian regulation. There are links to the legal fund donation page in the linked article.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Helicopter parenting is one problem, legal enforcement of helicopter parenting is an entirely different monster.
Don't parents sometimes tattle on other parents they deem to be irresponsible, according to their own standards of just what children ought to be able to do by themselves? I seem to remember reading some anecdotes here the last time this topic came up.
It's probably not very common but it has definitely happened:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/living/florida-mom-arrested-so...